About Kristina
Dr. Kristina Thompson helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, depression, and addiction. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use each day.
Her style aims to make big problems feel more manageable. Many clients come for help with relationships, grief, sleep, or parenting strain. She uses a blend of client-centered care and structured tools.
That means she starts by hearing each person's priorities, then adds skills and strategies that fit their life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and build better routines. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is offered for people processing traumatic memories. Dr.
Thompson holds a Master of Science and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC. She has 13 years of counseling experience and has worked across a wide range of concerns. Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism and related neurodiversity topics, and addiction challenges.
Sessions are practical and goal-focused, with room for personal stories and pacing that suits each person. She uses motivational techniques to support change and narrative methods to help people reframe their life stories. Progress looks different for everyone, and she tailors the approach to what the person needs at the time.
Dr. Thompson practices from Mississippi and conducts sessions in English. Her approach is steady and encouraging, aimed at helping people take the next realistic step toward feeling better.
How approaches like CBT and EMDR work online
Client-Centered Therapy puts your concerns first and shapes each session around what you say matters most. The therapist listens, reflects, and helps you set practical goals you can try between sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and daily habits that feed anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles. EMDR focuses on processing distressing memories through guided techniques to reduce their emotional hold, which can be helpful for trauma and abuse recovery.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and choose methods based on your concerns, goals, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and can change as you make progress or as needs shift.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules or travel make in-person visits difficult. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let you check in between longer sessions or use short, focused exchanges for support. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching the format to your daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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